ABOUT MASTERCARD FOUNDATION
Mastercard Basis seeks a world the place everybody has the chance to study and prosper. By means of its Younger Africa Works technique and Canadian EleV program, the Basis works with companions to make sure that thousands and thousands of younger folks, particularly younger girls, entry high quality schooling, monetary companies, and dignified work. Mastercard Basis was established in 2006 by means of the generosity of Mastercard when it grew to become a public firm. The Basis is impartial with its personal Board of Administrators and CEO.
THE WORK AT THE FOUNDATION
We now have entered a really thrilling time on the Basis as we scale up our operations throughout Africa to comprehend our Younger Africa Works technique. Our function on the Mastercard Basis is to be a catalyst. Our Younger Africa Works technique focuses on working with others to spur systemic change so younger folks have the chance to seek out work that’s dignified and fulfilling.
The Basis has opened places of work in Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana, Senegal, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Uganda, constructing a broader management presence in Africa to develop particular methods that help youth employment. Inside a rustic, we work with governments, the non-public sector, educators, younger folks, and different funders to enhance the standard of schooling and vocational coaching, put together younger folks for the work pressure, increase entry to monetary companies for entrepreneurs and small companies, and join job seekers to dignified and fulfilling work.
We’re bold and pushed. Our values transcend and rise above every little thing else as our information. We encourage you to deliver your daring concepts, curiosity, and experience to your work. We giggle at ourselves and with one another. We’re a staff. Our journey collectively makes our influence much more significant.
UNDERSTANDING CANADA PROGRAMS AT THE FOUNDATION
The Basis has begun working inside Canada in partnership with Indigenous communities and post-secondary establishments to hear, study, and greatest perceive how we are able to act in significant methods. The EleV technique was co-created with Indigenous communities, younger folks, and companions to allow 30,000 Indigenous youth to finish their schooling and transition to dignified work aligned with their values and aspirations.
As mirrored in Canada’s Fact and Reconciliation Fee Calls to Motion, schooling is a key driver of improved socio-economic well-being. By means of constructing partnerships with Indigenous communities, we glance to increase our initiative finally serving to to help a technology of transformative Indigenous younger leaders who might be change brokers inside their communities. We consider that by setting a daring goal, we’ll encourage engagement throughout sectors and create momentum that may elevate the strengths and alternatives of Indigenous youth. Consistent with our strategy, Indigenous communities and younger folks would be the drivers of this transformation. This system will promote improvements to deal with longer-term systemic change to attain financial prosperity and social well-being inside Indigenous communities.
The EleV staff oversees present and rising partnerships associated to Indigenous schooling. In step with our general imaginative and prescient and Youth Africa Works technique, we’ll share learnings and alternatives to attach throughout the work of the Basis. Whereas working in distinct contexts, the centrality of youth voice and imaginative and prescient, affirmation of tradition and id, and precedence to reinforce neighborhood capability for self-determination are frequent threads upon which our work is strengthened and bolstered.
If you’re an skilled Lead, Program Planning and Monitoring skilled seeking to enhance your influence, learn on!
THE OPPORTUNITY
Reporting to the Nation Director, the Lead will present management, steerage, and technical help to the Nation program staff on planning and monitoring work. S/He might be primarily liable for coordinating program and portfolio planning that interprets nation/regional strategic agenda into annual/thematic plans and operational supply; constructing and guaranteeing the implementation of the Basis’s funding monitoring techniques and monitoring framework and coordinate duties and processes for monitoring progress on key agreed indicators (i.e., Ranges 1-4 as set out within the Shared Measures launched in 2021) which have implications for studying and adaptive administration of the relationships between implementing companions and the Mastercard Basis. As an integral a part of the Nation program staff, S/He’ll work in collaboration with the Affect staff at Nation, Regional and Enterprise-wide ranges, and with the Technique and Planning perform.
WAYS YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
- Coordinates the processes of figuring out the most effective strategic strategy in a rustic primarily based on the Basis’s mission, area of interest and comparative benefit, and alignment to nation’s nationwide priorities and aspiration of younger men and women. Particularly, to growing strategic plans:
- Codify learnings from diagnostics, ecosystem mappings, foresight research and macro evaluation to tell strategic plans.
- Lead and handle the nation technique improvement processes, together with root trigger analyses, goal setting and illustrating the event hypotheses.
- Coordinates this system and portfolio planning that includes built-in Programming for Affect programming course of, together with approaches/ mechanisms for partnering.
- Contributes to mission design processes similar to growing/evolving mission boundaries, theories of change, and adaptable plan(s) for implementation.
- Contributes to the event of Basis-wide requirements and course of for systematic Program monitoring (with Affect and Technique and Planning).
- Coordinates the operationalization of the Basis-wide monitoring system requirements, tips, processes, and instruments to watch the Basis’s investments within the Nation. Particularly, to implement and strengthen accomplice stage MEL techniques by:
- Growing an understanding of partner-level techniques already in place and decide how they are often strengthened.
- Facilitating the alignment of theories of change and M&E plans; figuring out info wants, knowledge sources, processes for reporting, suggestions, studying and adaptation; implementing these techniques.
- Constructing relationships with related stakeholders to grasp their wants and have the ability to present related steerage which might be helpful for them.
- Coordinates the monitoring of agreed KPIs and facilitate the event of different indicators as could also be co-determined for efficient and environment friendly implementation of measures that enhance impacts at scale.
- Supplies strategic steerage within the technique of growing a sturdy, Companion-level M&E plan and frameworks for the aim of implementing the agreements for supply reached with the Basis.
- Advises and collaborate with the nation Program staff to find out/develop monitoring and accomplice insights necessities for the Basis’s Companion initiatives to be included within the MOUs with the Basis.
- Work in collaboration with the nation Program staff to help employees of the Basis’s Companions and different stakeholders in monitoring knowledge assortment, report writing, and documenting of fine practices achieved because of implementation of the Basis’s partnership for elevated entry of younger men and women to alternatives for dignified and fulfilling work.
- Leads, manages, and oversees recording, analyzing and sense making of Basis’s Companion monitoring knowledge to help efficient progress reporting and resolution making.
- Advises Nation program staff and in-Nation Affect staff on monitoring points, together with high quality assurance of applications prioritizing points and/or applications of labor of strategic significance to the Basis.
- Develops efficient studying and capability constructing mechanisms on monitoring and accomplice insights, repeatedly figuring out good observe inside and out of doors the Basis to tell studying and supply oversight of peer help to Basis’s Companions in Nation.
- In collaboration with the Affect Functionality Improvement and Technique and Planning and different related Capabilities, carries out capability assessments primarily based on nation wants, together with supporting the Nigeria Program staff to construct MEL capabilities, multiply the training and supply peer-to-peer help.
- Participates in inter-functional initiatives similar to coordinated visits to intervention websites, to help program improvement from a monitoring and accomplice insights perspective.
- Supplies oversight to the administration of the Program Planning and Monitoring staff, together with efficiency administration and employees improvement of each direct studies and (exterior) consultants as required.
- Represents Program Planning and Monitoring internally within the Basis, and externally at boards and specialised occasions on program monitoring and studying.
WHO YOU ARE
- Publish-graduate diploma and/or equal expertise and coaching. A data of analysis strategies, and particularly analysis approaches and abilities associated to gathering knowledge and insights amongst indigenous communities, youth, and different weak teams, utilizing applicable cultural lenses and views.
- 10+ years’ expertise working with the non-public and non-profit sectors, significantly in a job regarding main/coordinating planning, M&E and reporting techniques.
- Demonstrated capacity to develop and handle strategic and operational plans to handle, observe the implementation of Roadmaps and partnerships – supply of outcomes and deliverables, timelines, duties.
- Expertise in working intently with stakeholders in growing international locations (similar to authorities ministries and NGOs) to design and implement results-based administration techniques; this needs to be achieved in such a approach that the M&E techniques grow to be helpful for native stakeholders and get utilized by them.
- Expertise in working with worldwide stakeholders (e.g., donors) to design/implement results-based administration techniques for advanced applications, together with applications which have a large scope of emergent interventions and a give attention to adaptation and studying.
- Working expertise in growing, updating, and delivering coaching on M&E techniques.
- Expertise with introducing new concepts and strategies to M&E techniques, and in organising computerized MIS.
- Expertise making use of a variety of tech-enabled instruments for knowledge assortment, evaluation, reporting, and communication.
- Expertise in participatory approaches and demonstrated dedication to gender inclusion and youth engagement.
- Expertise with knowledge high quality assessments of administrative, qualitative, and quantitative knowledge combined strategies.
- Expertise with beneficiary suggestions loops and participatory strategies.
- Expertise at senior management and administration, ideally main a rustic.
- Expertise dwelling and/or working in a neighborhood nation/neighborhood.
- Expertise navigating analysis protocols, assessment processes and administration of massive knowledge with authorities and tutorial establishments.
- Strong expertise in strategic, portfolio and implementation work planning.
- Deep familiarity with methods for gathering, collating, and analyzing knowledge for the aim of measuring and reporting on outcomes and impacts. Deep data of monitoring techniques, native analysis, and analysis strategies.
- Robust language, cultural and id/affiliation with nationwide folks.
- Membership in nationwide networks and authorities as relevant.
- Abilities and competency to develop Measurable Outcomes and Impacts, in addition to strategies and instruments for measuring identical inside authorities and non-governmental establishments.
- Understanding of techniques pondering and powerful capacity to develop and take a look at theories of change and related observe instruments as they could be related and applicable for indigenous communities.
- Expertise in stakeholder engagement and coverage influencing. This could embrace expertise working in community-based organizations, governance and associated councils/commissions, regional and nationwide authorities, and the non-public sector.
- Excessive tolerance for ambiguity and alter, and talent to adapt to altering priorities inside a fast-paced work setting with a “roll up the sleeves” angle.
- Robust problem-solving abilities mixed with a observe report of pivoting in response to alternatives and challenges.
- Versatile, adaptable, and capable of execute a variety of job duties and altering priorities.
- Possess glorious verbal, written, and presentation abilities with the power to articulate info to quite a lot of constituents throughout cultures.
- Possess skilled maturity, sensitivity with totally different cultures, and impeccable integrity that exemplify the Basis’s values.
- Display a dedication to Mastercard Basis’s values and imaginative and prescient.
Deadline for Functions is Could 31, 2023.
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